Why we will win Cape Town: ANC

The ANC believes it can snatch the metro away from current mayor, Patricia de Lille, in the upcoming elections claiming that the DA does not care for the welfare of the poor.

ANC mayoral candidate for Cape Town, Xolani Sotashe, told the Sunday Times: “When the ANC wins on August 3, we will correct apartheid spatial planning, which persists under DA rule.”

Sotashe noted that the DA rolled out the multimillion-rand MyCiti bus rapid transit system to wealthy suburbs including Camps Bay first, while poorer areas including Gugulethu and Mitchells Plain were last.

“The DA only cares about the production contribution, not the welfare of the poor.” Sotashe said that under de Lille, “Cape Town is more divided than ever before”.

“The gap between the wealthy and the poor is widening because the DA skews resources, of which there is no shortage,” the ANC representative said.

“The first three things I will do when I am mayor is to find out exactly what the role of every city official is, to tell them how priorities will change under an ANC administration and to ensure that the city officialdom is representative of the demographics of the city.”